KJV King James Version
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
2 Samuel 17:17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, for they dared not be seen entering the city.
WEB World English Bible
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.
ASV American Standard Version
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En-rogel; and a maid-servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David: for they might not be seen to come into the city.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jonathan and Ahimaaz are standing at En-Rogel, and the maid-servant hath gone and declared to them—and they go and have declared it to king David—for they are not able to be seen to go in to the city.
Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 17
14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
15 Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that [are] with him.
17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
20 And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where [is] Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find [them], they returned to Jerusalem.
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וִיהוֹנָתָ֨ןH3083 · ye.ho.na.tanJonathanוַאֲחִימַ֜עַץH290 · a.chi.ma.atsAhimaazעֹמְדִ֣יםH5975 · a.madto stand: standבְּעֵין־H5883 · en ro.gelEn-rogelרֹגֵ֗לH5883 · en ro.gelEn-rogelוְהָלְכָ֤הH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentהַשִּׁפְחָה֙H8198 · shiph.chahmaidservantוְהִגִּ֣ידָהH5046 · na.gadto tellלָהֶ֔םH9038 · hemthemוְהֵם֙H1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)יֵֽלְכ֔וּH1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentוְהִגִּ֖ידוּH5046 · na.gadto tellלַמֶּ֣לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingדָּוִ֑דH1732 · da.vidDavidכִּ֣יH3588 · kiforלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotיוּכְל֛וּH3201 · ya.kholbe ableלְהֵרָא֖וֹתH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeלָב֥וֹאH935 · boto come (in): comeהָעִֽירָה׃H5892 · irexcitement
Cross-references
2 Samuel 15:36Behold, [they have] there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok’s [son], and Jonathan Abiathar’s [son]; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.Joshua 15:7And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that [is] before the going up to Adummim, which [is] on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:Joshua 18:16And the border came down to the end of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of the son of Hinnom, [and] which [is] in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,2 Samuel 15:27The king said also unto Zadok the priest, [Art not] thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.Joshua 2:4-24And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they [were]:1 Kings 1:9And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which [is] by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants:
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